Introduction Racism and Prejudice is one of the most serious and pernicious situations in our world today. The novel All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely is about two young men, Rashad Butler and Quinn Collins, one black and one white, whose lives…
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Introduction Jason Reynold’s and Brendan Kiely’s All American Boys is a book based on several very real social issues that threaten society today. “Police Brutality”, “Racism”, “Prejudice” and “Bias” are just a few of the very serious problems that are all too real in this…
Introduction As of the end of June 2018, 91 black individuals were killed by police officers. This number increases every day. All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely is a novel that looks at police brutality from two perspectives: Rashad, who is unnecessarily…
Taylor's Perseverance in the Bean Trees by Barbara Kingslover
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Have you ever seen someone under terrible circumstances continue to keep going and try as hard as they can, no matter what? This is always a wonder to behold, but how did this person get to be so perseverant? Chances are they have someone that…
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingslovers: Compassion and Struggles of Illegal Immigrants
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Never have I read a book so inspiring as Barbara Kingslovers novel, The Bean Trees. This novel indeed influences young readers by giving them belief of everything is going to be okay. Reading deep inside this book, spreads a powerful message that could be really…
The Bean Trees and Other Literature: the Struggles of Motherhood
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Some of the cultural reasons why women might have their first child earlier in places like Taylor’s (fictional Pittman County) rather than later in places like San Diego is because more women are expected to raise babies when they are younger because they are in…
Introduction In Born a Crime, Trevor Noah states “a knowledgeable man is a free man” and explains how Apartheid in South Africa worked by racially segregating education (Noah 61). Black children were not afforded the same quality of schooling as the white children, they were…
Introduction In Trevor Noah’s ‘Born a Crime’, Trevor Noah describes his early life during the apartheid era of South Africa. In his life, he describes being a mixed boy of African and Swiss/German heritage under a government that strictly forbade racial mixing. His mother, a…
Introduction Trauma can be thought of as deep distress rooted to unforgettable emotional scarring. Trevor Noah’s memoir, “Born A Crime” gives insight on what it’s like to grow up as “coloured” individual during the South African apartheid. Noah is the illegal product of a black…
The Hate U Give: Portrayal of Racism and Police Brutality in the Novel
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Introduction I enjoyed reading the novel, The Hate U Give written by Angie Thomas simply because it can connect to society effectively and relate to teenagers in a humorous way at the same time. Additionally, Angie Thomas successfully portrayed many powerful and relevant themes such…
Starr comes from a family of four. She is a sixteen-year-old girl who lives in a neighbourhood of Garden Heights. She faces many experiences and demanding challenges, she develops a lot of change and finding her voice through the silence. In Angie Thomas’ The Hate…
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas: Stylistic Elements and Societal Issues
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Introduction I enjoyed reading the novel, The Hate U Give written by Angie Thomas simply because it can connect to society effectively and relate to teenagers in a humorous way at the same time. It effectively communicates the issues of police brutality by showing an…
Introduction “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith is a coming-of-age novel that follows the journey of Francie Nolan, a young girl growing up in the poverty-stricken neighborhoods of Brooklyn during the early 20th century. The novel delves into themes of resilience, dreams, and…
For one my ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ essays that I have created thia one serves the purpose of criticising adulthood, showing the dangers of people in authority, the unreliability of our elders and revealing the unpleasant side of the North America we live in….
Women’s writing struggling against the internalization of role models thrust on women has learnt to express the untold narrative of being a woman. Women’s writing focuses attention on both the manifestation of a female sensibility, a feminine reality and on its significance as a means…
A relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose.
Drama, Folklore, Poetry, Prose
Fiction, Nonfiction
Narrative poetry, Lyric
Morality play, History play, Tragedy, Comedy, Tragicomedy, Satire
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Robison Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky